Natural number bias in operations with missing numbers

ZDM - Mathematics Education

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 747-758

  Christou, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arithmetic operations; Intuitions; Multiplication makes bigger; Natural number bias; Number reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940042068     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-015-0675-6     Document Type: Article

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